title: School phobia: patterns of family functioning.
abstract: Seventy-six families of children with school phobia were evaluated with the Family Assessment Measure. Mothers and fathers, as separate groups, rated clinically significant dysfunction in the parent-child relationship in the areas of role performance and values and norms. There were no significant differences between intact and single-parent families on ratings of family dysfunction. There was significantly less family dysfunction as rated by mothers and by children if the child had a diagnosis of pure anxiety disorder compared to families of school phobic children in other diagnostic categories.
authors.affiliation: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Bernstein
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Svingen
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Garfinkel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012380:Role; D012945:Social Values